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Poem by William Butler Yeats


Men Improve with the Years


I AM worn out with dreams;
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams;
And all day long I look
Upon this lady's beauty
As though I had found in a book
A pictured beauty,
Pleased to have filled the eyes
Or the discerning ears,
Delighted to be but wise,
For men improve with the years;
And yet, and yet,
Is this my dream, or the truth?
O would that we had met
When I had my burning youth!
But I grow old among dreams,
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams. 



William Butler Yeats


William Butler Yeats's other poems:
  1. Me Peacock
  2. Dream of a Blessed Spirit
  3. Under the Round Tower
  4. Tom at Cruachan
  5. Under Saturn


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